Lana Morris

Lana Morris

Born: March 11, 1930
Died: May 28, 1998
in Ruislip, London, England, UK
From Wikipedia

Lana Morris, born Averil Maureen Anita Morris (11 March 1930 – 28 May 1998) was a British film, stage and television actress during the 1950s and 1960s.

She played the role of Helene in the 1967 BBC adaptation of The Forsyte Saga, and appeared in many other television programmes. She worked with Roger Moore in The Saint, appearing on the cover of an early 1960s tie-in reprinting of the novel The Saint in New York. She later became a television panellist. She was also in British films such as I Start Counting.

She was married to the BBC executive Ronnie Waldman (1914–1978) (from 1953 to 1978).

She died of a heart attack in Windsor, Berkshire aged 68 and was survived by her son.

Movies for Lana Morris...

Title: Howards' Way
Character: Vanessa Andenberg
Released: September 1, 1985
Type: TV
The BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best boat designer in the world' Tom Howard, his boutique running wife Jan Howard, 'I'll have a drink' Jack Rolfe and a nasty man called Ken Masters. It starred Maurice Colbourne.
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The Best of Enemies
Title: The Best of Enemies
Character: Aunt Marie
Released: July 19, 1977
Type: Movie
In Occupied France, a cultured civilised German ofi ccer is billeted out and stirs up conflicting emotions in the household.
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Grace
Title: Grace
Character: Beryl
Released: September 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A disillusioned antiques dealer takes tap dancing lessons.
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I Start Counting
Title: I Start Counting
Character: Leonie
Released: October 27, 1970
Type: Movie
An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is the serial killer at large.
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Title: The Forsyte Saga
Character: Helene Hillmer
Released: January 7, 1967
Type: TV
The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Teresa Alvarez
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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October Moth
Title: October Moth
Character: Molly
Released: September 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A mentally ill farm worker comes to believe that an injured car crash victim is his mother and becomes so unhinged that he turns to murder.
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Jet Storm
Title: Jet Storm
Character: Jane Tracer
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
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No Trees in the Street
Title: No Trees in the Street
Character: Marge
Released: March 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
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Passport to Shame
Title: Passport to Shame
Character: Girl
Released: December 2, 1958
Type: Movie
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
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Moment of Indiscretion
Title: Moment of Indiscretion
Character: Janet Miller
Released: September 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Janet Miller (Lana Morris) is a married woman caught in awkward circumstances after police investigating a murder come up with evidence, and a potentially lethal motive, which lead them to suspect her of committing the crime. Their suspicions increase when Janet is less than forthcoming about a visit she paid to a former beau. Happily, her loyal husband (Ronald Howard) swears by her innocence and quickly leaps into motion to find the real killer.
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Home and Away
Title: Home and Away
Character: Mary Knowles
Released: September 4, 1956
Type: Movie
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in partnership with the son of a woman against whom George has some ill feelings.
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Man of the Moment
Title: Man of the Moment
Character: Penny
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gunmen and assassins of foreign powers, Norman finds himself running through active TV studio sets and interrupts various programs and performances in progress
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Radio Cab Murder
Title: Radio Cab Murder
Character: Myra
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
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Trouble in Store
Title: Trouble in Store
Character: Sally Wilson
Released: December 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.
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Black 13
Title: Black 13
Character: Marion
Released: November 30, 1953
Type: Movie
The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident.
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The Good Beginning
Title: The Good Beginning
Character: Evie Watson
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.
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The Straw Man
Title: The Straw Man
Character: Ruth Hunter
Released: August 17, 1953
Type: Movie
A newly married man is convicted of murdering a former lover in his apartment, and sentenced to hang. With a payout on his life worth 20,000 pounds, the insurance company sends an investigator to find out the truth.
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The Red Beret
Title: The Red Beret
Character: Pinky
Released: August 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
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Ragazze da marito
Title: Ragazze da marito
Released: November 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.
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A Tale of Five Cities
Title: A Tale of Five Cities
Character: Delia Morel Romanoff
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
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Trio
Title: Trio
Character: Gladys
Released: October 10, 1950
Type: Movie
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
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The Woman in Question
Title: The Woman in Question
Character: Lana Clark
Released: October 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
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The Reluctant Widow
Title: The Reluctant Widow
Character: Becky
Released: May 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
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Guilt Is My Shadow
Title: Guilt Is My Shadow
Character: Betty
Released: March 22, 1950
Type: Movie
A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.
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Morning Departure
Title: Morning Departure
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
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Trottie True
Title: Trottie True
Character: Bouncy Barrington
Released: September 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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The Chiltern Hundreds
Title: The Chiltern Hundreds
Character: Bessie Sykes
Released: September 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...
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It's Hard to be Good
Title: It's Hard to be Good
Character: Daphne
Released: November 10, 1948
Type: Movie
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
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The Weaker Sex
Title: The Weaker Sex
Character: Lolly Dacre McIntyre
Released: October 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
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Spring in Park Lane
Title: Spring in Park Lane
Character: Rosie
Released: March 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Life in the normally tranquil high society home of Joshua Howard is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious footman in this sparkling British romantic comedy hit. Richard acts like anything but a servant. He has aristocratic airs and graces, an expert knowledge of fine art and can play classical music and boogie-woogie on a grand piano with equal aplomb. And is that an Old Etonian tie he's wearing? Judy, is determined to discover Richard's true identity and the reason he's posing as a lowly footman. Bored with the attentions of vain movie stars and eccentric minor nobility, she's captivated by his easy-going charm and ready to fall. But will his scandalous secret come between them and true happiness?